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Awareness, with specificity toward threats that pose a danger of grave harm and/or death. This is a primary goal of our training for self-protection. There are a few factors that one must understand and have the ability to apply efficiently to achieve situational awareness:
- An understanding of the concept of the OODA, the loop created to achieve faster actions and reactions in stressful situations. (Observation, Orientation, Decisions and Actions)
- An understanding of the principles of observation, i.e., kinesics, biometrics, proxemics, geographic’s, iconography, and atmospherics.
- these six principles if taken properly to their full measure in understanding and applying will give the most weight to understanding true situational awareness.
- I quote, “These six observational skills capture the most significant aspects of human behavior in simple terms that aid practitioners in establishing solid situational awareness useful in almost all situations and environments.
- Van Horne, Patrick. "Left of Bang: How the Marine Corps Combat Hunter Program." Black Irish Entertainment LLC. June 13, 2014.
- Comprehensive understanding of criminals, criminal activity and the threat these pose as well as the understanding of social violence, that which most face even on a daily basis because that is how our species expresses conflicts and violence compared to the more predatory asocial types of violence.
- used in a decision making process…
- Comprehensive understanding of the legal system and the social ramifications and effects on conflict and violence as addendums to all other aspects of situational awareness because that brings to totality of knowledge and understanding to the practitioner that supports and feeds situational awareness.
- used in a decision making process…
- Understanding as to how emotions are involved and effect situations (see observational principles above).
- reading the overall mood of a situation as well as the emotional moods of the people and the individual who may be involved in the overall threat detected.
- moods and emotions are contagious especially the negative emotions, etc.
NOTES - About SW
Situational awareness + proactive identification of threats, the ability to read the mood of a situation is a part of that situational awareness. The ability to pick up on the atmospherics of a situation can be a life saver, like the customer who strolls into a convenience story and while shopping detects an anomaly that turns out to be a robbery in progress. Backs out of the store entrance, uses the cell and informs 911 of events as they unfold.
Moods and emotions are first experienced subconsciously, in any given situation, where we have that "spidey sense" that something is amiss and that is our emotional signals telling us that something is an anomaly to our normal lives so being attuned to our own emotional responses in any given situation will increase the speed of our cognitive understanding as to what is actually going on.
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